discogs is the shit. fuck spotify, and their corporate plants in every other "personalized" playlist they generate. at least you have something to show for your money 25 years later and a company can't decide to arbitrarily stop offering the music etc.
It was like that though.
If you got 3 tracks off a hip hop album you’d nailed it.
Yes, there are exceptions, we now call them classics
Back in those days you could listen to the record/cassette/cd in the store before you bought it. They would have these headphones you could use.
So it's not as big of a problem as this meme would make it seem.
I bought Finger11 for paralyzed and then realized it was by far their best track.
But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.
The person who made this meme is too young to know about reselling stuff they own.
Except you couldn't? You would get $1-2 bucks for most used tapes/LPs/Cds.
When people who didn't like rock/metal bought an Extreme album because they thought all the songs were like More Than Words.